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  • 24 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 24

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2575912   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 515-011 Muñoz Group: Sustaining Global Vertical Integration Through Innovation Muñoz Group, which supplied supermarket chains and food View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22

expanded anti-aging line; and how to market and distribute the product internationally, particularly in France. Issues of intellectual property were also essential to the launch—in the past, Radiant had faced problems with cosmetic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009

innovative new product for the treatment of acne that they hope to sell to consumers via direct-response television. The unconventional nature of the product and its distribution has led the company to seek angel financing. The Silicon... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 30

acquisition in the mechanical controls distribution industry. Ferrari received support from the PE firm in negotiating and financing acquisitions but faced the challenging task of integrating them into the core business. Getting all the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

by serving as a central organ for distributing news of corporate activity to internal as well as external audiences. In effect, it served as a vehicle for making human conversation all but unnecessary, at least from an organizational... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
  • Web

Artist Support | Baker Library

asserted early on that “great” Polaroid prints should be sold and distributed as works of art. (5) Adams similarly valued the Polaroid image as a cultural and historic object: “Do not depreciate the importance of the snapshot,” he wrote.... View Details
  • 28 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 28

recounts Dropbox's history from conception through mid-2010, when founder/CEO Drew Houston must make strategic decisions about new product features, how to target enterprise customers, and whether to pursue distribution deals with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 5, 2006

of that potential, however, McMillan would have to work with Prince to craft and execute a carefully developed plan to market and distribute the album. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

Ready for Launch

A daily apartment cleaning service (Fresh Maid). An organizer of one-day extreme endurance events for men (Tough Mudder). A market-based solution to increase the milk production of cattle in rural India (Doodh Bhandar). These are just a few of the semifinalists... View Details
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  • 01 Sep 2015
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First Look -- September 1, 2015

approaches are not suitable in settings where a material portion of the observations is at the boundaries. Nonlinear methods use restrictive distributional assumptions and employ ad-hoc transformations for observations at the boundaries.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 2, 2010

challenges of a platform landscape that includes significantly varying installed device base sizes, growth rates, application distribution models, and hardware device profiles. Focusing on Apple's market leading iOS platform and "App... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Dec 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Public Health for the Poor

will lead to probing for innovative alternatives. In some cases it may be the distribution system; in others it may be a technical solution. Or perhaps you need to redefine the problem altogether. One of the things our working group has... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 04 Sep 2019
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019

toward entrepreneurship. Venture capital has been driven from the start by the pull of outsized returns through a skewed distribution of payoffs—a faith in low-probability but substantial financial rewards that rarely materialize. Whether... View Details
  • 01 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #3: Keith Kinch, BlocPower

maintenance and repair with specific curriculum focused to get a workforce up and running within weeks. Urban Energy - this Brooklyn-based company installs solar panels with the goal of accelerating clean distributed energy adoption among... View Details
  • 10 Mar 2017
  • News

The Business of Lego Batman

producers and a lot more executives. And now the studio makes a lot less movies, maybe almost a third less movies. And as a result, there are fewer producers and fewer executives to service those movies. So that's a big change as well. And then lastly, View Details
Keywords: LEGO; Lego
  • January 2025 (Revised April 2025)
  • Case

Mercado Libre: The Best Is Yet to Come

By: Krishna G. Palepu, Fernando Fragueiro, Carla Larangeira and Mariana Cal
In 2024, Marcos Galperín, CEO and co-founder of Mercado Libre, reflected on its 25-year rise as Latin America’s largest marketplace, fintech leader, and most valuable public company. With operations spanning 18 countries and a robust ecosystem combining e-commerce,... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Multinational Firms and Management; Recruitment; Compensation and Benefits; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Leadership Style; Business or Company Management; Management Practices and Processes; Management Succession; E-commerce; Emerging Markets; Distribution; Logistics; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Business Strategy; Competition; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Technology Industry; Financial Services Industry; Retail Industry; Latin America; Mexico; Brazil; Argentina
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  • 06 Dec 2016
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December 6, 2016

category during a selling season. Namely, by distributing its seasonal catalog of products over multiple assortments rotated throughout the season—as opposed to selling all products in a single assortment—the retailer effectively conceals... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 14, 2007

distinctly different strategy. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=706518 Kinder Morgan, Inc.-Management Buyout Harvard Business School Case 207-123 Kinder Morgan, Inc., was a leader in the transportation and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 2

average patient of medium severity in this ED. We propose that the improved performance comes from a reduction in social loafing and a more distributed utilization of shared resources. These benefits outweigh the expected efficiency gains... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls

a lot of other interests too—humanitarian, political—and he had almost sold his company a few years before, thinking of pursuing something completely different. His leadership team reflected some of the same ambivalence. A few members continued to believe that widely... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas H. Davenport & Brook Manville; Consumer Products